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Title: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: Alex23 on December 12, 2013, 11:27:22 PM
Just clocked in at 146 on Stanford-Binet. Remember doing another test and being in the high 130's. I don't think those are very accurate. I remember the docs talking about my birth mother being close to 150. She was nuts borderline schizo and used to beat the shit out of me so many 'LOL'... my older sister is above me as well, so I guess genetics has to do with it. Anyway, taking the mensa test on Monday. Braaaains ;D

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Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: Kwon_2 on December 12, 2013, 11:32:24 PM
Very nice Alex!

Mensa Bob (my good friend in the north here in Swe and a prestigious member here on the forums), got 161 on the Stanfiord-Binet, myself i got 90 or so.

This was several years ago mind you, i'm more prone to get around 50-70 on any IQ-test these days due to mental regression and my brain devolving back to a shapeless amoebic mass due to events in life :D

Back in the 90s, it was always Mensa who had the brains, only thing i had was the willpower, the will to prevail.

Although i did have max points on that Intelligence tests they had for the Military, which i can't remember what it's called, not like it matters any since it's more than 20 years ago lol
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: BikiniSlut on December 13, 2013, 12:09:18 AM
If Alex is 146 I'm 192.  ::)

Obviously the "IQ" (oh brother  ::)) test is useless.
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: Kim Jong Bob on December 13, 2013, 12:13:27 AM
Very nice Alex!

Mensa Bob (my good friend in the north here in Swe and a prestigious member here on the forums), got 161 on the Stanfiord-Binet, myself i got 90 or so.

This was several years ago mind you, i'm more prone to get around 50-70 on any IQ-test these days due to mental regression and my brain devolving back to a shapeless amoebic mass due to events in life :D

Back in the 90s, it was always Mensa who had the brains, only thing i had was the willpower, the will to prevail.

Although i did have max points on that Intelligence tests they had for the Military, which i can't remember what it's called, not like it matters any since it's more than 20 years ago lol
this is the truth, kwon was always the willpower. I was the one that came up with the plan and he was the raw power that did the dirty work.

Alex if you have any questions about mensa just ask kwon and he will forward the question to me.
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: hazbin on December 13, 2013, 12:21:29 AM
this is the truth, kwon was always the willpower. I was the one that came up with the plan and he was the raw power that did the dirty work.

Alex if you have any questions about mensa just ask kwon and he will forward the question to me.

bit of a coincidence since you had stated that mensa bob was supposed to be mesa bob, no?    Freudian? you know, when you think of one thing but mention a mother - oops , I mean another!!
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: Kwon_2 on December 13, 2013, 12:22:03 AM
Or you could send a PM to me about this, which i will Send Forward to Jensefisken and he will contact Mensa as soon as possible.
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: Roger Bacon on December 13, 2013, 12:23:11 AM
this is the truth, kwon was always the willpower. I was the one that came up with the plan and he was the raw power that did the dirty work.

Alex if you have any questions about mensa just ask kwon and he will forward the question to me.

You're Swedish too? Everyone here is Swedish, lol

Swedes are fucking hilarious people apparently  ;D

I always thought of Swedes as annoying radical liberals, but you guys are quite the opposite... lol
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: Kwon_2 on December 13, 2013, 12:23:39 AM
bit of a coincidence since you had stated that mensa bob was supposed to be mesa bob, no?    Freudian? you know, when you think of one thing but mention a mother - oops , I mean another!!

Mensa Bob is one of the more intelligent members of Mensa, but also lives up on the Mesa, and is related to the Menzers.

A Man of many talents and qualities.

He is a multifaceted chap, not just one thing that drives him. But yes, both the Mesa and the Mensa is Warm at Heart for him.
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: hazbin on December 13, 2013, 12:24:54 AM
Mensa Bob is one of the more intelligent members of Mensa, but also lives up on the Mesa, and is related to the Menzers.

A Man of many talents and qualities.

He is a multifaceted chap, not just one thing that drives him. But yes, both the Mesa and the Mensa is Warm at Heart for him.

I respect him highly.   I just recall his anecdote regarding his handle on here.
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: Van_Bilderass on December 13, 2013, 12:27:03 AM
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Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: disco_stu on December 13, 2013, 12:27:45 AM
Just clocked in at 146 on Stanford-Binet. Remember doing another test and being in the high 130's. I don't think those are very accurate. I remember the docs talking about my birth mother being close to 150. She was nuts borderline schizo and used to beat the shit out of me so many 'LOL'... my older sister is above me as well, so I guess genetics has to do with it. Anyway, taking the mensa test on Monday. Braaaains ;D

(http://tacticalentertainment.tv/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Brains.jpg)

no they arent accurate...

i scored 142 in the mensa test...yes i am a certified mensan.

its pretty amazing that your mum adn sis is above 146...thats virtually unheard of..and close to 150?.... are you sure about that?

very rare to get anyone at or near 145..let alone 150...and 3 in the same family?- u should buy a lottery ticket.


Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: Kim Jong Bob on December 13, 2013, 12:29:31 AM
bit of a coincidence since you had stated that mensa bob was supposed to be mesa bob, no?    Freudian? you know, when you think of one thing but mention a mother - oops , I mean another!!
haha yes .i was quite drunk when i made the handle  ;D
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: Kim Jong Bob on December 13, 2013, 12:31:00 AM
You're Swedish too? Everyone here is Swedish, lol

Swedes are fucking hilarious people apparently  ;D

I always thought of Swedes as annoying radical liberals, but you guys are quite the opposite... lol
well i live in the northern part of sweden so there is not much to do in the winter thats why im quitr nuts....kwon is just born that way  ;D
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: hazbin on December 13, 2013, 12:31:24 AM
haha yes .i was quite drunk when i made the handle  ;D

do you Swedes know of the twin girls from the video 'unbelievable madness in the fastlane' "??    bizarre story, can't tell if it is true?
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: disco_stu on December 13, 2013, 12:32:00 AM
Very nice Alex!

Mensa Bob (my good friend in the north here in Swe and a prestigious member here on the forums), got 161 on the Stanfiord-Binet, myself i got 90 or so.

This was several years ago mind you, i'm more prone to get around 50-70 on any IQ-test these days due to mental regression and my brain devolving back to a shapeless amoebic mass due to events in life :D

Back in the 90s, it was always Mensa who had the brains, only thing i had was the willpower, the will to prevail.

Although i did have max points on that Intelligence tests they had for the Military, which i can't remember what it's called, not like it matters any since it's more than 20 years ago lol

bullshit. 161 ..

seriously anyone getting that in a properly proctored, controlled test, is a freak. a person of true genius, like, say, copernicus or newton or ..well, even einstein was less...

once you hit mid 130s, then u are in rarefied territory..its not a linear scale beyond that... it drops off rapidly. the smarts difference between someone with an iq of 135 and 145 is worlds...

Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: Kim Jong Bob on December 13, 2013, 12:36:36 AM
do you Swedes know of the twin girls from the video 'unbelievable madness in the fastlane' "??    bizarre story, can't tell if it is true?
was it about the sisters that got hit by cars and didnt get a scratch. I think they where high as fuck to ?
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: Alex23 on December 13, 2013, 12:37:29 AM
Very nice Alex!

Mensa Bob (my good friend in the north here in Swe and a prestigious member here on the forums), got 161 on the Stanfiord-Binet, myself i got 90 or so.

This was several years ago mind you, i'm more prone to get around 50-70 on any IQ-test these days due to mental regression and my brain devolving back to a shapeless amoebic mass due to events in life :D

Back in the 90s, it was always Mensa who had the brains, only thing i had was the willpower, the will to prevail.

Although i did have max points on that Intelligence tests they had for the Military, which i can't remember what it's called, not like it matters any since it's more than 20 years ago lol

good info boss, thanks!

I would be curious to get Mensa_bob's take on this. I think a lot of it has to do with your state of mind at the time of the test. Had a lot of coffee today and one of those "Johnny on the spot" days.
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: Alex23 on December 13, 2013, 12:38:52 AM
99

GodSpeed.
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: hazbin on December 13, 2013, 12:39:12 AM
was it about the sisters that got hit by cars and didnt get a scratch. I think they where high as fuck to ?

yes.  just saw it. pretty strange.
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: Kwon_2 on December 13, 2013, 12:42:58 AM
bullshit. 161 ..

seriously anyone getting that in a properly proctored, controlled test, is a freak. a person of true genius, like, say, copernicus or newton or ..well, even einstein was less...

once you hit mid 130s, then u are in rarefied territory..its not a linear scale beyond that... it drops off rapidly. the smarts difference between someone with an iq of 135 and 145 is worlds...

It was Dr Jens Fiskén who conducted it, so one would assume it was properly proctored and controlled.

I only got 90 though (and it would definately have dropped off with quite a bit if i did the test today), all questions Mensa you'll have to ask Mensa himself.

I am definately not in rarified territory, but my good friend Mensa is definately.

Known him for years, eating heavy at the time.
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: Alex23 on December 13, 2013, 12:44:57 AM
yes.  just saw it. pretty strange.

 :o

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Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: Roger Bacon on December 13, 2013, 12:45:13 AM
do you Swedes know of the twin girls from the video 'unbelievable madness in the fastlane' "??    bizarre story, can't tell if it is true?

Is that the two blonde girls that the police were chasing or something, and the one girl got run over by a truck and still managed to run away? Freaky

Can we make a Sweden Q&A thread? lol
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: Kwon_2 on December 13, 2013, 12:47:09 AM
Is that the two blonde girls that the police were chasing or something, and the one girl got run over by a truck and still managed to run away? Freaky

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_and_Sabina_Eriksson
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: Kim Jong Bob on December 13, 2013, 12:47:44 AM
yes.  just saw it. pretty strange.
didnt know there where a documentary abojt it. Just saw the clips when it happend. Found the documentary on youtube now and watched the first minutes...did one of them stab another man when she was released?
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: Alex23 on December 13, 2013, 12:48:08 AM
Is that the two blonde girls that the police were chasing or something, and the one girl got run over by a truck and still managed to run away? Freaky

Can we make a Sweden Q&A thread? lol

Blond hair = Epic leans of physics defying Peace.
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: Roger Bacon on December 13, 2013, 12:50:03 AM
Blond hair = Epic leans of physics defying Peace.

I just saw on TV that people with blonde hair have around 50k more hair follicles than everyone else.

Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: Alex23 on December 13, 2013, 12:53:50 AM
I just saw on TV that people with blonde hair have around 50k more hair follicles than everyone else.



Actually read that recently. Epic non balding hayrian genes of Peace.  ;D

Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: Van_Bilderass on December 13, 2013, 01:35:41 AM
I recently read that intelligence has 5 correlating features:

Blue eyes

Rec drug use

Being a night owl

High sex drive

Big tits (if you're female)
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: MORTALCOIL on December 13, 2013, 01:38:22 AM
I recently read that intelligence has 5 correlating features:

Blue eyes

Rec drug use

Being a night owl

High sex drive

Big tits (if you're female)

I score a nice 4 out of 5 and I'm a male. I don't have blue eyes though.
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: The Onion on December 13, 2013, 01:43:56 AM
Just clocked in at 146 on Stanford-Binet. Remember doing another test and being in the high 130's. I don't think those are very accurate. I remember the docs talking about my birth mother being close to 150. She was nuts borderline schizo and used to beat the shit out of me so many 'LOL'... my older sister is above me as well, so I guess genetics has to do with it. Anyway, taking the mensa test on Monday. Braaaains ;D
So you're saying that you have an IQ(-score) at or above the 99.7 percentile of the population...  :D
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: The Onion on December 13, 2013, 01:55:15 AM
Could you please elaborate on how the test was conducted? The verbal reasoning part would be especially interesting to hear about.  :)
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Post by: MONSTER_TRICEPS on December 13, 2013, 02:00:03 AM
On the internet the average IQ is 135, I guess below that people are too stupid to turn on the computer.
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: The Italian Lifter on December 13, 2013, 02:02:16 AM
I was never able to do the IQ test, never understood how it works or what am I supposed to do
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: phreak on December 13, 2013, 03:19:38 AM
no they arent accurate...

i scored 142 in the mensa test...yes i am a certified mensan.

its pretty amazing that your mum adn sis is above 146...thats virtually unheard of..and close to 150?.... are you sure about that?

very rare to get anyone at or near 145..let alone 150...and 3 in the same family?- u should buy a lottery ticket.



My wife was a mensa member (148), but she gave up her membership. She went to a few meetings, but considered everyone there retards, who only discussed the same nonsense regular humans do (TV, celebrities).


I tested myself too and it turns out I'm borderline retarded.  ;D  I succeed at life, which is what counts.
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: phreak on December 13, 2013, 03:20:34 AM
I recently read that intelligence has 5 correlating features:

Blue eyes

Rec drug use

Being a night owl

High sex drive

Big tits (if you're female)

5 out of 5 for me. And yes, male. ;D
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: MikMaq on December 13, 2013, 03:26:56 AM
I'd never even bother my verbal abilities would drag me through the floor.


Besides all that I'm autistic, which is code for half my brain doesn't work. Without testing ones social processing, IQ tests are meaningless. Alot of the people with high IQ's lack the social skills to run a mcdonalds. That's not to say super smart people aren't social, but simply IQ tests don't factor in ability to read body language, ability to manipulate, and empathetic sense.
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: phreak on December 13, 2013, 03:51:04 AM
Besides all that I'm autistic, which is code for half my brain doesn't work. Without testing ones social processing, IQ tests are meaningless. Alot of the people with high IQ's lack the social skills to run a mcdonalds. That's not to say super smart people aren't social, but simply IQ tests don't factor in ability to read body language, ability to manipulate, and empathetic sense.
This describes my wife perfectly. Brilliant, but can't apply it when dealing with humans.
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: mik1111 on December 13, 2013, 04:00:39 AM
Without testing ones social processing, IQ tests are meaningless. Alot of the people with high IQ's lack the social skills to run a mcdonalds. That's not to say super smart people aren't social, but simply IQ tests don't factor in ability to read body language, ability to manipulate, and empathetic sense.
this is the dumb man's excuse. not that there's anything wrong in not being smart.
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: hazbin on December 13, 2013, 04:03:02 AM
5 out of 4 people don't understand fractions
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: Mr Nobody on December 13, 2013, 04:10:06 AM
Yes you have to have a minimum of a 140 IQ to get on Obamas Healthcare site or you get fined.
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: The Showstoppa on December 13, 2013, 04:21:36 AM
As scary as this sounds gents, I clocked in at a 138 when I was in the 4th grade.
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: Bertha Butt on December 13, 2013, 05:10:31 AM
I recently read that intelligence has 5 correlating features:

Blue eyes

Rec drug use

Being a night owl

High sex drive

Big tits (if you're female)
Only score 3 out of 5... Does a cup size GG or H compensate for not doing drugs and staying up late?

My wife was a mensa member (148), but she gave up her membership. She went to a few meetings, but considered everyone there retards, who only discussed the same nonsense regular humans do (TV, celebrities).


I tested myself too and it turns out I'm borderline retarded.  ;D  I succeed at life, which is what counts.
Main topic was who's doing who. Was I supposed to keep up with that? I can't even remender all the guys I fucked myself...

You're just as retarded as an MD, according to the IQ-scale vs education.  ;D
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: NordicNerd on December 13, 2013, 05:23:10 AM
Just clocked in at 146 on Stanford-Binet. Remember doing another test and being in the high 130's. I don't think those are very accurate. I remember the docs talking about my birth mother being close to 150. She was nuts borderline schizo and used to beat the shit out of me so many 'LOL'... my older sister is above me as well, so I guess genetics has to do with it. Anyway, taking the mensa test on Monday. Braaaains ;D

(http://tacticalentertainment.tv/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Brains.jpg)

Take the WAIS-IV- it will give you the most accurate score and also a lot of info regarding your cognitive relative strengths. It is the best there is. Don't bother with the MENSA bullshit. It's not a serious IQ test.


NN
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: Mr Anabolic on December 13, 2013, 05:26:43 AM
I last tested at 138.
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: Obvious Gimmick on December 13, 2013, 05:28:47 AM
I've tested 112xs every time it's been 225
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: GraniteCityDon on December 13, 2013, 05:47:18 AM
5 out of 4 people don't understand fractions

 ;D

I have yet to take an "official" test but everything ive had online ive smashed. I dont put alot of faith into them because if they truly are an accurate indication of intelligence then we are all in trouble, they are ridiculously easy.I will say with absolute confidence that i have a much higher than average IQ.
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: galeniko on December 13, 2013, 06:25:05 AM
73

that puts me straight on par with the animal kingdom 8)
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Post by: Kim Jong Bob on December 13, 2013, 07:33:11 AM
73

that puts me straight on par with the animal kingdom 8)
well all your exgirlfriends thinks you are a pig so....  ;D
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: El Diablo Blanco on December 13, 2013, 07:37:44 AM
I took the bidet test and just got wet.

I'm a mensa member, got in years ago.  No big deal.  I don't even give a shit about it.  I only did it because my prof told me to.  I am smart SMRT!!
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: chaos on December 13, 2013, 07:42:20 AM
I've tested 112xs every time it's been 225
Post the results after Sony dubs the soundtrack. 8)
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: Man of Steel on December 13, 2013, 07:56:19 AM
I'm a red-blooded 'Merican evangelical born again from South Texas soooooo 30?
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: galeniko on December 13, 2013, 08:00:17 AM
well all your exgirlfriends thinks you are a pig so....  ;D
:D

i really tested in the 70s, and i tried hard.oh well.

i read that humour is directly related to inteligence, so i cant be that dumb.

maybe its related like the funnier,the dumber, but dont think so.

arent all iq tests a trick from scientology to sucker in the naive?youre smart come join us ;D
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Post by: Nomad on December 13, 2013, 11:35:18 AM
high 120s after taking the test hungover and sleep deprived.

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Post by: nasht5 on December 13, 2013, 11:39:03 AM
I tried to measure my iq but i only have a yard stick....
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Post by: funk51 on December 13, 2013, 11:41:18 AM
129
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Post by: Archer77 on December 13, 2013, 11:46:06 AM
I had my IQ tested in high school and was offered a scholarship to cranbrook.  I grow dumber by the year.
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Post by: chaos on December 13, 2013, 11:57:34 AM
Getbig iz knone fer itz hibrough sofistikaded humer.
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: Teutonic Knight on December 13, 2013, 01:42:19 PM
I would pay for Wiggs & Anabolichalos IQ tests  :)
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: dr.chimps on December 13, 2013, 01:49:01 PM
Pretty sure most academics could not give a flip. The only people who care about their IQ are those that are ephemeral.  ;)
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: Irongrip400 on December 13, 2013, 01:54:19 PM
I scored a 42 on the wonderlic. Closest I've taken to an IQ test.
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: arce1988 on December 13, 2013, 02:20:39 PM
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This was several years ago mind you, i'm more prone to get around 50-70 on any IQ-test these days, due to mental regression and my brain devolving back to a shapeless amoebic mass due to events in life Cheesy

^

 :D ;D
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: Alex23 on December 13, 2013, 04:31:25 PM
Getbig iz knone fer itz hibrough sofistikaded humer.

Hummer?
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: LiftEaTsLeEpRePeAt on December 13, 2013, 04:35:47 PM
If Alex is 146 I'm 192.  ::)

Obviously the "IQ" (oh brother  ::)) test is useless.
so how do you measure it
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: NarcissisticDeity on December 13, 2013, 04:47:35 PM
Pretty sure most academics could not give a flip. The only people who care about their IQ are those that are ephemeral.  ;)

...[But] I took the test, scored high, and became a member of Mensa.
     It was not on the whole, a happy experience.  I met a number of wonderful Mensans, but there were other Mensans who were brain-proud and aggressive about their IQs, who, one got the impression, would like, on being introduced, to be able to say, ’I’m Joe Doakes, and my IQ is 172,’ or, perhaps, have the figure tattooed on their forehead.  They were, as I had been in my youth, forcing their intelligence on unwilling victims.  In general, too, they felt underappreciated and undersuccessful.  As a result, they had soured on the Universe and tended to be disagreeable.

     What’s more, they were constantly jousting with each other, testing their intelligence on each other, and that sort of thing becomes wearing after awhile.

     Furthermore, I became uncomfortably aware that Mensans, however high their paper IQ might be, were likely to be as irrational as anyone else.  Many of them believed themselves to be part of a ‘superior’ group that ought to rule the world, and despised non-Mensans as inferiors.  Naturally, they tended to be right-wing conservatives, and I generally feel terribly out of sympathy with such views.

     Worse yet, there were groups among them, I found out eventually, who accepted astrology and many other pseudoscientific beliefs, and who formed ‘SIGs’ (‘special interest groups’) devoted to different varieties of intellectual trash.  Where was the credit of being associated with that sort of thing, even tangentially?

     ... I stayed on in Mensa for years, getting more and more tired of it. ... Eventually, after both Marvin and Margot [two of the New York Mensans he acknowledged as "delightful and intelligent"] had died, I did resign.

               - Isaac Asimov, I. ASIMOV: A MEMOIR



What Is Intelligence, Anyway?

By Isaac Asimov
What is intelligence, anyway?

When I was in the army, I received the kind of aptitude test that all soldiers took and, against a normal of 100, scored 160. No one at the base had ever seen a figure like that, and for two hours they made a big fuss over me.

(It didn't mean anything. The next day I was still a buck private with KP - kitchen police - as my highest duty.)

All my life I've been registering scores like that, so that I have the complacent feeling that I'm highly intelligent, and I expect other people to think so too.

Actually, though, don't such scores simply mean that I am very good at answering the type of academic questions that are considered worthy of answers by people who make up the intelligence tests - people with intellectual bents similar to mine?

For instance, I had an auto-repair man once, who, on these intelligence tests, could not possibly have scored more than 80, by my estimate. I always took it for granted that I was far more intelligent than he was.

Yet, when anything went wrong with my car I hastened to him with it, watched him anxiously as he explored its vitals, and listened to his pronouncements as though they were divine oracles - and he always fixed my car.

Well, then, suppose my auto-repair man devised questions for an intelligence test.

Or suppose a carpenter did, or a farmer, or, indeed, almost anyone but an academician. By every one of those tests, I'd prove myself a moron, and I'd be a moron, too.

In a world where I could not use my academic training and my verbal talents but had to do something intricate or hard, working with my hands, I would do poorly.

My intelligence, then, is not absolute but is a function of the society I live in and of the fact that a small subsection of that society has managed to foist itself on the rest as an arbiter of such matters.

Consider my auto-repair man, again.

He had a habit of telling me jokes whenever he saw me.

One time he raised his head from under the automobile hood to say: "Doc, a deaf-and-mute guy went into a hardware store to ask for some nails. He put two fingers together on the counter and made hammering motions with the other hand.

"The clerk brought him a hammer. He shook his head and pointed to the two fingers he was hammering. The clerk brought him nails. He picked out the sizes he wanted, and left. Well, doc, the next guy who came in was a blind man. He wanted scissors. How do you suppose he asked for them?"

Indulgently, I lifted by right hand and made scissoring motions with my first two fingers.

Whereupon my auto-repair man laughed raucously and said, "Why, you dumb jerk, He used his voice and asked for them."

Then he said smugly, "I've been trying that on all my customers today." "Did you catch many?" I asked. "Quite a few," he said, "but I knew for sure I'd catch you."

"Why is that?" I asked. "Because you're so goddamned educated, doc, I knew you couldn't be very smart."

And I have an uneasy feeling he had something there.


~ ~ ~

Autobiography by Dr. Isaac Asimov (1920–1992):
It's Been a Good Life



Richard Feynman had an IQ of ' only ' 125 and wasn't a fan of psychometric testing either and his intelligence far exceeded what the number suggests. These tests are useless for all intents-and-purposes 
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: Alex23 on December 13, 2013, 04:54:54 PM
Even with an alleged IQ of 146, not interested reading all this shit ^^^^^^^^^
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: Natural Man on December 13, 2013, 05:51:34 PM
it's getbig, everyone has a score in the 130s here...
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: Alex23 on December 13, 2013, 08:41:19 PM
it's getbig, everyone has a score in the 130s here...

Actually no. Read that thread again. there are some honest posters on here. Where do you stand?
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: Kwon_2 on December 13, 2013, 08:50:43 PM
it's getbig, everyone has a score in the 130s here...

Not me.
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: Natural Man on December 13, 2013, 08:53:28 PM
intelligence is how an animal known as man use his brain to dominate the competition instead of using his fists, physical strength. "Intelligence" is just a tool to dominate and adapt, survive, a strategy of survival just like everything else that exists.

Intelligence is used to kill instead of being killed. Just like fists, guns, hammers stones and sticks. Intelligence is developed by weak humans in order to compensate for their lack of physical strength.

Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: Alex23 on December 13, 2013, 08:59:33 PM
intelligence is how an animal known as man use his brain to dominate the competition instead of using his fists, physical strength. "Intelligence" is just a tool to dominate and adapt, survive, a strategy of survival just like everything else that exists.

Intelligence is used to kill instead of being killed. Just like fists, guns, hammers stones and sticks.



Wrong. It's evolutionary anti-entropy with the ultimate goal to shape the Universe in a predictable model and system. Terraforma is the next step in our evolution. 

Fix your camera kid.

Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: Tapeworm on December 14, 2013, 12:04:09 AM
No, but I've been told I have an above average penis.
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: Obvious Gimmick on December 14, 2013, 02:06:31 AM
No, but I've been told I have an above average penis.

How's your ground game?
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: O.Z. on December 14, 2013, 03:39:33 AM
intelligence is how an animal known as man use his brain to dominate the competition instead of using his fists, physical strength. "Intelligence" is just a tool to dominate and adapt, survive, a strategy of survival just like everything else that exists.

Intelligence is used to kill instead of being killed. Just like fists, guns, hammers stones and sticks. Intelligence is developed by weak humans in order to compensate for their lack of physical strength.



Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: MikMaq on December 14, 2013, 03:53:41 AM
;D
I will say with absolute confidence that i have a much higher than average IQ.
It's called an ego bias. Everyone believes there better than average but statistically half of us aren't over 100.


Richard Feynman had an IQ of ' only ' 125 and wasn't a fan of psychometric testing either and his intelligence far exceeded what the number suggests. These tests are useless for all intents-and-purposes 
I'm pretty sure that was when he was like 12 or 13, I don't think he was ever testable. His genius I believe was from synatesia
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: Wolfox on December 14, 2013, 03:54:23 AM
Not to brag but I bet I have the highest on this website.
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: GraniteCityDon on December 14, 2013, 05:03:46 AM
It's called an ego bias. Everyone believes there better than average but statistically half of us aren't over 100. 

I know it sounds egotistical, and that is not how i want to project myself, but i know alot of people with above average intelligence and i surpass them all. Christ i sound horrible but theres no other way i can say it. Im not saying im the smartest man in the world, very very far from it, but i know for certain that i am considerably above average.

Are there any reputable tests you can take online?
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: MAXX on December 14, 2013, 05:16:48 AM
Never did mensa test but had to do some IQ/problem solving tests for a job application and was well above average.

I read that these tests can be trained to a high degree though. Chris Langan is a perfect example of that. He trained these tests for all his life just to be able to score highly and be able brag about a high IQ. Sure he's intelligent but not as intelligent as these tests implies. And he's never made any good use of his so called intelligence. He worked on a pseudo bullshit "theory of everything" or some bs like that. In fact the more I read about him the more I think he's just a supersticious moron and a complete nutter.
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: mr.turbo on December 14, 2013, 06:34:30 AM
test taking is a skill

mental health issues are known to be hereditary

watch out bro!!
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: doriancutlerman on December 14, 2013, 07:26:01 AM
Not to brag but I bet I have the highest on this website.

Actually, you would be up there I think.  Kahn, Dr. Chimps and a host of others are very bright, too.
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: Van_Bilderass on December 14, 2013, 07:58:39 AM
I bet Basile has an above average IQ.
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: oliolioli on December 14, 2013, 09:31:35 AM
I bet Basile has an above average IQ.

He does he's just a bitter fucker.

Even FatAlex is above average, no way he is 146 more like 120-130, smart for sure just too many issues resulting in his anti-social behavior.  Wonder if his comment about his birth mother beating him is true or not, either way that statement says a lot about how fucked up he is.

Basically all of the posters known for wit/comedy are pretty smart.
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: _aj_ on December 14, 2013, 09:35:58 AM
Cock size and annual income mean more.
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: Mr Nobody on December 14, 2013, 09:52:08 AM
He does he's just a bitter fucker.

Even FatAlex is above average, no way he is 146 more like 120-130, smart for sure just too many issues resulting in his anti-social behavior.  Wonder if his comment about his birth mother beating him is true or not, either way that statement says a lot about how fucked up he is.

Basically all of the posters known for wit/comedy are pretty smart.
Good post. Alex is actually very smart but as in being smart sometimes you do not understand people not as smart and why they do not get what you are saying.
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: Devon97 on December 14, 2013, 12:00:39 PM
I was tested at 117 back in 1993
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: che on December 14, 2013, 12:06:08 PM
Cock size and annual income mean more.

I have both
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: Palpatine Q on December 14, 2013, 12:09:00 PM
He does he's just a bitter fucker.

Even FatAlex is above average, no way he is 146 more like 120-130, smart for sure just too many issues resulting in his anti-social behavior.  Wonder if his comment about his birth mother beating him is true or not, either way that statement says a lot about how fucked up he is.

Basically all of the posters known for wit/comedy are pretty smart.

I tested @ 147 in high school... you would he surprised .  It's not a measure of true intelligence. . Hence why they call it an intelligence quotient  test. .it basically tests to see your learning capabilities and analytical abilities. .how high your ceiling is.
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: The Abdominal Snoman on December 14, 2013, 12:20:48 PM
bullshit. 161 ..

seriously anyone getting that in a properly proctored, controlled test, is a freak. a person of true genius, like, say, copernicus or newton or ..well, even einstein was less...

once you hit mid 130s, then u are in rarefied territory..its not a linear scale beyond that... it drops off rapidly. the smarts difference between someone with an iq of 135 and 145 is worlds...



161 in that test and the person would be watched and or working for the Hierarchy and not have a choice about it...
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: NarcissisticDeity on December 14, 2013, 02:43:21 PM
I tested @ 147 in high school... you would he surprised .  It's not a measure of true intelligence. . Hence why they call it an intelligence quotient  test. .it basically tests to see your learning capabilities and analytical abilities. .how high your ceiling is.

Lolz Groink has a higher IQ than Richard Feynman  ::)
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: Hypertrophy on December 14, 2013, 03:00:05 PM
Cock size girth and annual income mean more.

Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: Jizzacked on December 14, 2013, 03:12:52 PM
you know sucksmanmuscle is ready to rip out of his skin... the furious itch to post in this thread consuming him  ;D
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: dr.chimps on December 14, 2013, 03:16:33 PM
you know sucksmanmuscle is ready to rip out of his skin... the furious itch to post in this thread consuming him  ;D
Ha! Yes. Probably had himself tied to that chair of his.
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: Palpatine Q on December 14, 2013, 04:31:44 PM
Lolz Groink has a higher IQ than Richard Feynman  ::)

On no...ND doesn't believe me  ::)

Seriously why would I lie.  I was a severely troubled youth and saw shrinks..took multiple tests inculding IQ...it is what it is.  My brother's was even higher. .. we're smart people.
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: tu_holmes on December 14, 2013, 04:32:31 PM
Never bothered. I don't care about IQ... I care about getting paid.

That's just me though.
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: NarcissisticDeity on December 14, 2013, 04:37:23 PM
On no...ND doesn't believe me  ::)

Seriously why would I lie.  I was a severely troubled youth and saw shrinks..took multiple tests inculding IQ...it is what it is.  My brother's was even higher. .. we're smart people.

Oh yeah why would you lie?  ::)
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: Palpatine Q on December 14, 2013, 04:43:44 PM
Oh yeah why would you lie?  ::)

I wasn't lying...hope this helps.

took my first shot aprill 2011


Have fun going through my old posts.....LOL.
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: NarcissisticDeity on December 14, 2013, 04:55:45 PM
I wasn't lying...hope this helps.

took my first shot aprill 2011




LMAO  ;D
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: MAXX on December 14, 2013, 05:02:33 PM
lol

smm just had his account deleted

he probably has another gimmic though..
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: travisma on December 14, 2013, 05:16:29 PM
Interesting that you are bothering to do the Mensa Test. Here in Australia if you didn't get above 148 you will not be able to apply.

Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: MikMaq on December 14, 2013, 06:13:16 PM
On no...ND doesn't believe me  ::)

Seriously why would I lie.  I was a severely troubled youth and saw shrinks..took multiple tests inculding IQ...it is what it is.  My brother's was even higher. .. we're smart people.
Lol as if things have changed.
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: dustin on December 14, 2013, 06:17:19 PM
I'm in the mid, single digit range.

Oh, we're talking about IQs and not body fat percentage.

I'm in the mid, single digit range. >:( ;D
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: LiftEaTsLeEpRePeAt on December 14, 2013, 07:06:01 PM
I'm in the mid, single digit range.

Oh, we're talking about IQs and not body fat percentage.

I'm in the mid, single digit range. >:( ;D
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Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: Alex23 on December 14, 2013, 07:07:22 PM
I'm in the mid, single digit range.

Oh, we're talking about IQs and not body fat percentage.

I'm in the mid, single digit range. >:( ;D
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I think you meant to post "275" but failed, which brings your IQ more in the mid 60's range.



 :D
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: dustin on December 14, 2013, 07:11:44 PM
I'm in the mid, single digit range.

Oh, we're talking about IQs and not body fat percentage.

I'm in the mid, single digit range. >:( ;D
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I think you meant to post "275" but failed, which brings your IQ more in the mid 60's range.



 :D

lol

Look at all these broken quotes. Looks like you guys are in the same IQ range as me!!! ;D
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: Alex23 on December 14, 2013, 07:31:42 PM
lol
Look at all these broken quotes. Looks like you guys are in the same IQ range as me!!! ;D

LOL too lazy to fix it ;D



Fuck I'm out for a smoke. Got those delightful Marlboro "smooth" 100's....

Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: Mr Nobody on December 14, 2013, 09:37:27 PM
LOL too lazy to fix it ;D



Fuck I'm out for a smoke. Got those delightful Marlboro "smooth" 100's....


Yes, Galienko and I were just sitting on the back porch smoking and discussing ankle size girths and eating raw turnip greens.
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: Palpatine Q on December 14, 2013, 09:45:30 PM
Yes, Galienko and I were just sitting on the back porch smoking and discussing ankle size girths and eating raw turnip greens.

LOL. wtf.

mr Nobody showing his subversive side lately and letting on he's a lot sharper than we think.
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: Alex23 on December 14, 2013, 11:13:20 PM
LOL. wtf.

mr Nobody showing his subversive side lately and letting on he's a lot sharper than we think.

He's a a sleeper cell of goodies. The guy is sharp as hell.  8)

Props chief.
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: leonp1981 on December 15, 2013, 12:50:26 AM
A couple of friends convinced me to apply for Mensa about 10 years ago.  I got 146 on the test, joined up for a couple of years and then let my membership expire because all you get for it is a quarterly (?) magazine and a pin badge...  ???

It's nice to be able to say you've got a high IQ, but it means nothing in the real world.  People with super high IQ's (150-160+) are generally very awkward socially and don't have a high level of everyday knowledge or 'street smarts' for want of a better phrase.

You could have an IQ of 70, but as long as you're providing for yourself and your family, then it doesn't really matter.
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: Mr Nobody on December 15, 2013, 02:02:00 AM
He's a a sleeper cell of goodies. The guy is sharp as hell.  8)

Props chief.
Yes I have been hitting line drives to the green monster wall at Fenway and then running out and catching them before they hit the ground.
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: Kwon_2 on December 15, 2013, 02:15:26 AM
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Look at all these broken quotes. Looks like you guys are in the same IQ range as me!!! ;D
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Learn to quote morans! :D

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Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: The Onion on December 15, 2013, 03:27:52 AM
A couple of friends convinced me to apply for Mensa about 10 years ago.  I got 146 on the test, joined up for a couple of years and then let my membership expire because all you get for it is a quarterly (?) magazine and a pin badge...  ???

It's nice to be able to say you've got a high IQ, but it means nothing in the real world.  People with super high IQ's (150-160+) are generally very awkward socially and don't have a high level of everyday knowledge or 'street smarts' for want of a better phrase.

You could have an IQ of 70, but as long as you're providing for yourself and your family, then it doesn't really matter.
At 70 you'd be borderline retarded and I doubt you'd be a good family provider.


Funny that a lot of self proclaimed geniuses are downplaying the importance of intelligence when it's in fact one of the single most important charactaristics for success, academic and other types. Self discipline may trump intelligence in a lot of situations but being intelligent doesn't make you a lazy wanker or socially inept person by default - as a lot of people seem to believe...

An intelligent man would have an easier time developing "street smarts" or finding ways to socialize compared to someone with a lesser intellect. With that said, being intelligent may however lead you to make choices in life that limits your exposure to situations where you have an opportunity to develop street smarts or some types of social skills.

There's also a problem when men of average intelligence are judging someone smarter as they don't have the right framework to make such an assessment, ie lacking the perspectives of the smarter man, while simultaneously having the privilege of being "right" simply by being "the majority".
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: NordicNerd on December 15, 2013, 05:54:10 AM
I tested @ 147 in high school... you would he surprised .  It's not a measure of true intelligence. . Hence why they call it an intelligence quotient  test. .it basically tests to see your learning capabilities and analytical abilities. .how high your ceiling is.

So, what is "true intelligence". How would you define that?

NN
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: dr.chimps on December 15, 2013, 06:11:46 AM
Yes I have been hitting line drives to the green monster wall at Fenway and then running out and catching them before they hit the ground.
Let me guess. Left field?   ;D
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: Kwon_2 on December 15, 2013, 06:14:05 AM
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Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: Mr Nobody on December 15, 2013, 06:19:31 AM
Let me guess. Left field?   ;D
Yes I always choose the path of least resistance.
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: The Onion on December 15, 2013, 06:24:37 AM
Batman is really smart and therefore (spelling?) he's able to beat much stronger opponents, some even black bodybuilders - like Phil Heath (afro american).
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: dr.chimps on December 15, 2013, 06:26:18 AM
Yes I always choose the path of least resistance.
Me too. 'If something is to hard to do, then it's not worth doing.'
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: Palpatine Q on December 15, 2013, 07:59:47 AM
So, what is "true intelligence". How would you define that?

NN

I look at it l ike this...you could have a 250 dollar laptop that has office and quickbooks on it, and is used for research purposes


And a 2000 dollar Mac that is only used for porn, getbig and video games.
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: NordicNerd on December 15, 2013, 12:04:46 PM
I look at it l ike this...you could have a 250 dollar laptop that has office and quickbooks on it, and is used for research purposes


And a 2000 dollar Mac that is only used for porn, getbig and video games.

Actually, that would be an ecologically relevant and valid definition :-).

NN
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: leonp1981 on December 15, 2013, 12:30:46 PM
At 70 you'd be borderline retarded and I doubt you'd be a good family provider.

I'm not sure if they'd be borderline retarded, but the point stands.  As long as you're working and providing for your family, does it matter if you're not the sharpest tool in the box?

Funny that a lot of self proclaimed geniuses are downplaying the importance of intelligence when it's in fact one of the single most important charactaristics for success, academic and other types. Self discipline may trump intelligence in a lot of situations but being intelligent doesn't make you a lazy wanker or socially inept person by default - as a lot of people seem to believe...

It is, but I'll bet there are a lot more rich and successful average IQ people than intelligent ones (largely due to the music industry and sports!)  Some people have a good grasp of business, without any other natural academic flair, and are able to make a good living for themselves.  Builders don't tend to be geniuses, but I don't think I've ever met one who was short on money.  Being intelligent doesn't equate to being successful, there are too many other factors at play.  I run my own company, but I wouldn't class myself as being successful, not yet anyway.  Maybe one day I will be, but there's a lot of time and effort that needs to go into it first, nothing to do with intelligence.

An intelligent man would have an easier time developing "street smarts" or finding ways to socialize compared to someone with a lesser intellect. With that said, being intelligent may however lead you to make choices in life that limits your exposure to situations where you have an opportunity to develop street smarts or some types of social skills.

Only to a certain level.  I still believe that anything over 150 IQ leads to almost being on a different plane to everyone else, and they find it hard to join in with social settings.  They can maybe teach themselves how to do so over time, but it's still very automated and not natural.
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: The Onion on December 15, 2013, 02:08:51 PM
I'm not sure if they'd be borderline retarded, but the point stands.  As long as you're working and providing for your family, does it matter if you're not the sharpest tool in the box?
No, not really.  :)

One definition of intelligence is making choices and doing whatever brings you toward your long term goal in life - and if you're satisfied with working and providing for your family then you're set. A lack of intelligence may however prove it difficult to achieve whatever goal you'd like to achieve. Some argue that happiness is the ultimate currency and while it seems plausible I wouldn't be comfortable making such a statement for certain.

It is, but I'll bet there are a lot more rich and successful average IQ people than intelligent ones (largely due to the music industry and sports!)  Some people have a good grasp of business, without any other natural academic flair, and are able to make a good living for themselves.  Builders don't tend to be geniuses, but I don't think I've ever met one who was short on money.  Being intelligent doesn't equate to being successful, there are too many other factors at play.  I run my own company, but I wouldn't class myself as being successful, not yet anyway.  Maybe one day I will be, but there's a lot of time and effort that needs to go into it first, nothing to do with intelligence.
Of course there's more successful men of average IQ than highly intelligent ones and the obvious reason for that is that there are way more "average" men than highly intelligent ones... and also the fact that the world is tailored to suit the common man in a lot of situations - your scenario with builders is actually a very good example, at least here in Sweden where we got all sorts of tax laws that redistribute money to the building sector. And sure, there are a lot of different factors that come into play when determining success, in individual cases. Intelligence and self discipline are two of, if not the, most important factors when determining success in a more general perspective, at least according the science I've taken note of.

Only to a certain level.  I still believe that anything over 150 IQ leads to almost being on a different plane to everyone else, and they find it hard to join in with social settings.  They can maybe teach themselves how to do so over time, but it's still very automated and not natural.
Sure, it can be hard for a highly intelligent man to socialize with someone of average intelligence but who's to say that it's the highly intelligent man that's acting "weird"... Do you get what I'm aiming at? You can only judge the situation by your own (limited) perception.

A discrepancy of roughly 30 IQ points, which is what separates the borderline retarded from the average and also what's separetes the average man from the highly intelligent one, is not a small step but a giant leap. I think that most people feel most comfortable among peers but the problem of being highly intelligent is that you don't have a lot of peers...

Socializing tend to become awkward when it's not fullfilling and humor is a great example of this. A joke, however clever it might be, is just "weird" for someone that doesn't get the funny... and we all know how it goes when trying to explain it.  ;D

For whatever it's worth, I won't respond to any replies that's adressed to all the crap that I just wrote. I'm too tired... and also too Swedish.
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: Natural Man on December 15, 2013, 02:47:06 PM

An intelligent man would have an easier time developing "street smarts" or finding ways to socialize compared to someone with a lesser intellect. With that said, being intelligent may however lead you to make choices in life that limits your exposure to situations where you have an opportunity to develop street smarts or some types of social skills.


no. it depends of the social skills you acquired or didnt acquire during childhood, has nothing to do with your level of "intelligence".
Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: Danimal77 on December 15, 2013, 08:11:05 PM
Just clocked in at 146 on Stanford-Binet. Remember doing another test and being in the high 130's. I don't think those are very accurate. I remember the docs talking about my birth mother being close to 150. She was nuts borderline schizo and used to beat the shit out of me so many 'LOL'... my older sister is above me as well, so I guess genetics has to do with it. Anyway, taking the mensa test on Monday. Braaaains ;D

(http://tacticalentertainment.tv/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Brains.jpg)

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Title: Re: Ever measured your IQ?
Post by: oliolioli on December 15, 2013, 08:27:52 PM
No, not really.  :)

One definition of intelligence is making choices and doing whatever brings you toward your long term goal in life - and if you're satisfied with working and providing for your family then you're set. A lack of intelligence may however prove it difficult to achieve whatever goal you'd like to achieve. Some argue that happiness is the ultimate currency and while it seems plausible I wouldn't be comfortable making such a statement for certain.
Of course there's more successful men of average IQ than highly intelligent ones and the obvious reason for that is that there are way more "average" men than highly intelligent ones... and also the fact that the world is tailored to suit the common man in a lot of situations - your scenario with builders is actually a very good example, at least here in Sweden where we got all sorts of tax laws that redistribute money to the building sector. And sure, there are a lot of different factors that come into play when determining success, in individual cases. Intelligence and self discipline are two of, if not the, most important factors when determining success in a more general perspective, at least according the science I've taken note of.
Sure, it can be hard for a highly intelligent man to socialize with someone of average intelligence but who's to say that it's the highly intelligent man that's acting "weird"... Do you get what I'm aiming at? You can only judge the situation by your own (limited) perception.

A discrepancy of roughly 30 IQ points, which is what separates the borderline retarded from the average and also what's separetes the average man from the highly intelligent one, is not a small step but a giant leap. I think that most people feel most comfortable among peers but the problem of being highly intelligent is that you don't have a lot of peers...

Socializing tend to become awkward when it's not fullfilling and humor is a great example of this. A joke, however clever it might be, is just "weird" for someone that doesn't get the funny... and we all know how it goes when trying to explain it.  ;D

For whatever it's worth, I won't respond to any replies that's adressed to all the crap that I just wrote. I'm too tired... and also too Swedish.

It's obvious there is larger than a 30 point gap between you and LeonP.